Judge, 1929-06-15 · page 11 of 36
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# Explanation for Modern Readers This is a humorous advice column disguised as satirical commentary on summer leisure activities. The author (writing as "Lily," apparently a domestic persona) mocks wealthy tourists planning vacations by presenting deliberately absurd "improvements" to recreational equipment. The satire targets: 1. **Pretentious summer culture**: References to fashionable destinations (the Rockies, Newport) and activities (horseback riding, boating, billiards) 2. **Bizarre "innovations"**: The three figures show ridiculous contraptions—a vaulting horse that won a race and now hangs stuffed in a jockey's room; a Swedish horse with a Civil War genealogy; a reversible billiards table that flips when you score 3. **Class anxiety**: Jokes about people struggling to keep up with leisure expectations while lacking basic knowledge 4. **Domestic complaints**: The author sarcastically suggests readers avoid summer travel altogether, stay home, and stop complaining—a working-class perspective on elite vacation pretensions The humor relies on absurdist exaggeration to mock the nouveau-riche obsession with fashionable pursuits and unnecessary complications of simple pleasures.
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and IT have been so busy washing, boiling, and pre- serving cigars for next w ter that I haven't had speak to you housewives about your summer vacation, By washing and boiling I mean washing and boiling the cigars, not Lily; of course. 1 often wash and boil Lily, but I will have to take t up in a special article led “Washing and Boil ing Lily” next week. Or maybe some of you would like to drop around some morning and wash Lily get boiled. As you like, of course. Well, girls, next Friday vat eleven o'clock you had bet- ter begin scaring the moths out of your swim suits, for the groundhog will be throwing his shadow a token of Spring. The winner will throw Frank Gotch in East St. Louis on the eighteenth and whoever gets the d - a chance to sion will wrestle Stanislaus Nabisco for the title. So it is none too soon to be thinking about your annual turn s nong the poison ivy. Whether you are going to summer in the Mocky Mountains or in Newport, you will have to know something about horses, boats, and billiards. As you can see from the photos above, there have been several startling ¢ s made in all three recently. Figures 1 and 2 are ilting horse and a cowhide- covered Swedish horse, winners of the Saratoga Chipstakes this year. The vaulting horse won by a nose, which he presented to the judg is now stuffed and hanging in the jockeys’ room up there. As you can see from the picture, he is still wearing his winter underwear, consisting of toasted bacon, diced Bermuda onions, cole slaw, and peanut butter on rye or white. As for the cowhide-covered Swedish horse, the judges were puzzled whether to enter him with the steers, the horses, or the Swede: but he produced his birth certificate showing that both his father and mother had len at Gettysburg. After the race he entered the lumber business and married, and we hear that he is doing well at both. Good luck, Squarchcad, and don't forget your old benchmate No. 5 Assembling Room! Now that you have decided what sort of horse to ride this summer, the billiard question, like sex, again rears its ugly head. Everybody is tired of the old-fashioned humdrum game of billiards, but here in Figure 3 is a reversible table that will tickle the jaded billiardist’s palate. As soon as you score a carom, a whistle blows, the table immediately re- verses, and there » with your full of racks, cues, ds balls, nd which rs and hair nd dandruff. JUDGE Attention, Summer Tourist! Five blows, you se soft pulp. en, steame blows, consisting of ¢ toasted cole slaw, Bermuda bacon, and a cute little fellow with no teeth whom the police claim was see tube of sardellen paste to taken into custody and admitte on a Lionel electric. train. martial was then held, at which of peasantry, and he was fl : terboard which will be this sum sation. You and your “one and only” sit in oppo site ends of the dinghy and y throwin ht on the ha your we cabin has no floor, as floors encourage dirt, and the less cleaning you have to do the better. If you can't get along without floors this sum mer, then stay home and don’t come yainmer. ing to me say- ing you didn’t know. I'm sick and tired of yc way. No floors, hey? Last summer it was “no and after we'd mortgaged our bridgework diploma’ to send you to tutoring school, a boy we never heard of colle ties. sausage fa Well, gi tory like I did, Is, there you are, a grand time and wax fat. By the w fat be sure to give the fat a good scrubbing i “Fattening and Waxing Lily, 0 ture Boys on a Sheep Rane in the Bien-Jolie Foundation. minutes Ta sor Ww paper, which is fed into the maw Of ie mighty rds noon. He was A drumhead court- ure + shows a Jewish barkantine without cen- good. Read what or A Girl Chemise another whistle cue and beat — | hoever is handy into This pulp is then d, and made into ize presses which print n the third it is time for lunch, liced peanut butter, red hair king out of a n sned d being an engineer he was found guilty ustered and) thrown nmer’s yachting sen propel the craft by ndle, Note that the yur yammering any- too. When I was sand neckin first and then pol- ish with emery pa- per. Heat the wax 1, pour it onto the fat, and go and lie down somewhere for a couple of years. It'll do you it did to Lily in next week's article r The Moving Pic » PeretmMan comicbooks.com